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TREES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES 



lower surface of the leaves, especially on the midrib, pubescent. 

 Small tree, 10 to 30 ft. high ; Virginia and south, with very hard, 

 white, close-grained wood. Karely cultivated. 



3. Ilex monticola, Gray. Leaves de- 

 ciduous, ovate to lance-oblong, 3 to 5 in. 

 long, taper-pointed, thin, smooth, sharply 

 serrate. Fruit red, on short stems, with 

 the seeds many-ribbed on the back. Usu- 

 ally a shrub but sometimes tree-like; 

 damp woods in the Catskills and in the 

 Alleghany Mountains. 



ORDER XIII. CELASTRACE^E. 



Shrubs with simple leaves and small, regular flowers, 

 forming a fruit with ariled seeds. 



GENUS 19. EUONYMUS. 



Shrubs somewhat tree-like, with 4-sided branchlets, op- 

 posite, serrate leaves, and loose cymes of angular fruit 

 which bursts open in the autumn. 



1. Eu6nymus atropurpureus, Jacq. 

 (BURNING-BUSH. WAHOO.) Leaves peti- 

 oled, oval-oblong, pointed; parts of the 

 dark-purple flowers commonly in fours; 

 pods smooth, deeply lobed, when ripe, cin- 

 namon in color and very ornamental. Tall 

 shrub, 6 to 20 ft. high ; wild in Wiscon- 

 sin to New York, 

 and southward ; 

 often cultivated. 



E. atropurpureus. 



E. Europteus. 



2. Eu6nymus Europs&us, L. (EURO- 

 PEAN SPINDLE-TREE OR BURNING-BUSH.) 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, serrate, smooth; 

 flowers and fruit commonly in threes on 

 compressed stems ; fruit usually 4-lobed, the 

 lobes acute; flowers greenish- white ; May; 

 fruit abundant, scarlet, ripe in September. 



